"You ARE a moron!"
Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis and Jason Bateman have good chemistry as the bosses-harrassed trio of friends in this lightweight comedy which, like Bad Teacher, flirts with the audience but never quite goes far enough to have real impact. Day and Sudeikis give good comedy value with limited characters, but Bateman gives the much more finely-detailed and interesting performance of the leads. The three 'villains' - Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston - are all terrific and clearly relish playing with their images and provide the more unpleasantly funny comic moments in the film, although Aniston's predatory nymphomaniac-in-the-workplace positioning is uncomfortable from both gender points of view. The plotting is well thought out, although the female characters get very short shrift, and even the sequel set-up feels unforced. Horrible Bosses comes nowhere near the hilarity of The Hangover Part 2 or Bridemaids, but it does offer some effective set-ups and pay-offs with plenty of entertaining moments along the way.
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